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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Romanee-Saint-Vivant 2011 from Domaine de la Romanee-Conti is a refined and classic RSV. The nose is currently quite floral, and offer lovely crisp red berry fruit - elegant, energetic and very pure. The palate offer lovely purity and focus - very refined with it's transparent medium weight …
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The Vosne Romanee 2010 village from Sylvain Cathiard is a truly delightful wine. The bouquet is crammed with spicy refined fruit - notes of red berry fruit, violets, peony rose and a filligree minerality. The palate is offering a intense and silky display of cool and perfectly ripened pinot fruit. …
The 2004 Vosne-Romanee La Colombiere from Liger-Belair is showing matured notes. The bouquet is open and charming with quite intense red fruit aromas - red and dark cherries, a hint of strawberries and raspberries - and a beautiful whiff of rose petals and Vosne spices. After some air the fruit on …
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The Romanee-Saint-Vivant 2009 from Domaine Poisot is a refined and lovely wine. The bouquet is currently slightly closed (perhaps due to recent transport) but gradually showing more and more red fruit - cherries, raspberries - with hints of oak, coffee, liquorice and plum. On the palate beautiful …
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The Romanee-Saint-Vivant from Arnoux-Lachaux is made from a 0.375 ha plot in the southern part of the vineyard - just above the garden of Bernard Gros and just north of La Grande Rue. The 2008 edition of this lovely wine offers a quite expressive nose, with dark and red fruits - cherries, …
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